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Post by epiklow on Oct 2, 2010 9:21:29 GMT -5
Hi guys!
Some friends & I are planning on filming a movie. We're in Canada, and we've found an awesome valley with lots of trees to possibly film in. Now all we need to do is come up with some ideas.
Before we do, I was wondering what everyone hates about certain movies. What have you seen too much? What have you not seen enough of?
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Post by sophielovessam on Oct 2, 2010 16:38:45 GMT -5
That's a good question and something I think about all the time but now that someone has asked I can't think. :L What I hate in a movie is when like, say in a horror movie where the characters are really dumb and you're like 'Why would you do that?!' or 'why would you run that way, they're right there!' or something like that haha. And cliche's that kind of annoys me too. What I like to see is something really different with a different story and twists and things. What genre are you thinking of doing? You could look at some of the best movies ever made in the genre and then sort of look at what made them so successful.
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Post by †Wicky Wicked† on Oct 3, 2010 3:14:45 GMT -5
Sounds like a lot of fun Epiklow, making your own movie in a beautiful valley! What I hate in movies are cliches .... like if you make a horror movie that the killer is standing right behind someone or that it is really obvious who it is. I like really orignial storylines. For example I really liked Mean Creek, don't know if you have seen it but it's kinda a simple but beautifully turned out film.
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Post by nat on Oct 5, 2010 21:07:24 GMT -5
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Post by epiklow on Oct 7, 2010 8:40:41 GMT -5
Omg wicked! Hahaha. One day, these will be on screen Going to film school is so weird though. This guy came in the talk to us, and he has a $4 Million dollar comany, and he's only in his twenties!! And the movie biz is a lot more difficult than I thought it would be... takes so many people just to make something that turns out to be five minutes. I'm getting really discouraged. It's hard to tell what we should really do in life >.<
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Post by †Wicky Wicked† on Oct 7, 2010 12:25:20 GMT -5
Good drawing Nat. Cool epi you're going to film school? Sounds amazing to me.
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Post by epiklow on Oct 9, 2010 20:55:33 GMT -5
It's alright. My teachers cannot teach though lolz, that's a problem
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Post by lordhowl on Oct 9, 2010 22:06:12 GMT -5
Hi guys! Some friends & I are planning on filming a movie. We're in Canada, and we've found an awesome valley with lots of trees to possibly film in. Now all we need to do is come up with some ideas. Before we do, I was wondering what everyone hates about certain movies. What have you seen too much? What have you not seen enough of? Somehow, I totally missed this thread till now. Okay, you haven't said what type of movie it is, and I'm guessing that's still in the planning stages. I've had some experience and some education with film. Please know in starting this project, you'll be very restricted on the budget and production values that you have, and that it's hard to find local talent that is anywhere on par with places that attract talent, like Hollywood. After you shoot it, you have to post-produce it, which includes the editing, sound, music, special effects, and probably a million other things. But all that being said, you could still beat the odds and make a kick ass movie out of it. Just telling you what barriers you have. Okay, things that I don't like in films: -Idiot plots and characters made stupid just to move the plot. Horror movies are terrible for this. The problem is, people write horror scripts as progression of scary scenes. So, to start a scary scene, the writer then has to get the characters to get into the position to be killed and maimed. Scripts these days have to be so rigidly structured that they don't give you a lot of words and scenes to do this. As a result, the human characters begin to act like walking pieces of meat being coaxed into the slaughterhouse. Action movies are almost getting just as bad now. Now, characters could make critical errors under stress. If a character is surprised that they might just drop the knife they're holding. And before he or she anything, or anybody dies, they can be skeptical. But when things are creepy, people will not split up. Have them act with minimal self preservation at least. College students will not choose that creepy old campground instead of St. Augustine to vacation in. Also, at the first sign of trouble, they'd be out of there. If you have a monster, you must have one that's both powerful enough and intelligent enough to fight the very best strategies the heroes muster against it, and the heroes should not be dumb about the strategy. See John Carpenter's The Thing. -Lack of any depth or subtext in the script or directing. This is a movie that leaves you nothing to think back about and wonder about when it's over. When you're out of the theater, the experience is over. -Simple incompetence. The microphone that bobs into the screen is as bad as Transformers 3 cartoon-like physics. Bad sound quality especially, though. Really, these days, if you're going to do fight, even at a low budget, you have to figure out how to make it look good, and if you can't make it look good, don't do the fight. -Stereotyping. If you start with what the audience will take as a stereotype, have the stereotype act different. -Horror movie "justice." There's a school of thought that a horror story is a moral tale. The ones who suffer most and die by end are the ones who the writer deems as somehow immoral, wrong or unfit. I hate this approach. Now, a monster might be a character who judges certain other characters and punishes them, but since they're not thinking like normal human beings, this is necessarily going to be unjust. Monsters generally should be regarded like natural disasters: the innocent will suffer as much as the guilty. It's more horrifying, and that's the more horrifying, unsettling universe, much like our own.
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Post by epiklow on Oct 18, 2010 19:06:00 GMT -5
That's true! Thanks for the feedback I'm currently writing a script. It's about two students who are experimenting with their dreams. I'm still not sure about their genders or their names. But basically they both try to meet each other in their dreams, and when they do they meet in a valley where they can control their surroundings. Character #2 disapears and Character #1 soon realizes that they do not know how to wake up. At the end, we learn that Character #2 has trapped them in their dream, and has done this many times before to others.
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Post by lordhowl on Oct 18, 2010 19:51:17 GMT -5
Great basic story idea, I could tell by how many ideas I get for it. lol. How long is it going to be?
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Post by epiklow on Oct 21, 2010 22:23:06 GMT -5
Thanks I think we're going to to try and have it be around five minutes, which will be extremely challenging, but might possibly try longer. We wanted to use it to get into another program next year, but they changed the video entry length to 2 mintues now
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Post by lordhowl on Oct 21, 2010 22:54:41 GMT -5
Thanks I think we're going to to try and have it be around five minutes, which will be extremely challenging, but might possibly try longer. We wanted to use it to get into another program next year, but they changed the video entry length to 2 mintues now I think you'd have a hard time getting that plot into five minutes. But the hardest thing starting out is to scale your story to length.
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